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The home of Iron Chef is a mecca for fresh food and gourmet specialities

Word to the wise: Don't miss Shorters Club's Confectionery Tuck Shop, which magically transports you down memory lane with childhood sweets and delicacies.

Housed in a grand complex of Romanesque-style buildings, Chelsea Market is a gourmand’s paradise. With charming rustic touches like exposed brick walls and cement floors, the enormous space oozes nostalgia for its original tenant, the National Biscuit Company. From the 1890s to the 1950s, ovens here were churning out iconic American cookies like Oreos, Saltines and Mallomars. These days, the products sold in the market’s small gourmet shops, restaurants and bakeries, are anything but mass-produced.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find here: fresh bread at New York’s Amy’s Bread; sushi and seafood at The Lobster Place; meats at Frank’s Butcher Shop; mozzarella, pastas and prosciutto at Buonitalia Italian Imports; and ice cream perfection at L’Arte Del Gelato. Also in the complex is the excellent Buddakan restaurant and the very studio where ‘Iron Chef’ is filmed.

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HappyTrips EditorsHoused in a grand complex of Romanesque-style buildings, Chelsea Market is a gourmand’s paradise. With charming rustic touches like exposed brick walls and cement floors, the enormous space oozes nostalgia for its original tenant, the National Biscuit Company. From the 1890s to the 1950s, ovens here were churning out iconic American cookies like Oreos, Saltines and Mallomars. These days, the products sold in the market’s small gourmet shops, restaurants and bakeries, are anything but mass-produced.

​This former Nabisco plant—where the first Oreos were baked in 1912—now houses more than two dozen gourmet food, wine, and flower shops, as well as an Anthropologie store, and one of NYC's last independent book stores (Posman Books). Read full review

​Original factory floors and winding halls of exposed brick preserve the industrial feel of the original occupant, but Chelsea Market is hardly about utility shopping nowadays with its destination bakeries like Amy's Bread, Eleni's, and Sarabeth's, fresh produce and prepared foods from Buon Italia, and takeout from Thai Wholesale and Ronnybrook Milk Bar. Read full review

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